Welcome everyone to American Girls the Podcast. This is the show we're rereading the American

Girl series book by book except here on Patreon or we're doing whatever we want or whatever

you want and this time. whatever we kind of bet on ourselves not unlike Olympic champion

ambassador-elect Michelle Kwan.

Michelle Kwan.

My story.

And you know, we've really taken this on as our story, Allison.

I'm Mary, I should should say before we continue. I'm not Michelle Kwan I'm Allison.

Wow I mean I did confuse you but thank you for clarifying. I am excited. I am scared to get into figure skating because it goes so deep with me. It goes to a real place. You know, I know for you too, if you grew up in our age group, you really had exposure to

some of the best skaters of all

have these loyalties to different skaters from that era.

So I just kind of want to put my cards on the table,

have you put your cards on the table,

like what is your memory of Michelle Kwan of like growing up with figure skating?

Like what does this mean to you?

So this book is from 1997 and I did not read this book as a younger person. I think I would have. It was a scholastic book so I think it had been at the fair. I would have been interested. There is a photo of Kwan from this time where she is in this

absolutely beautiful like blue like a very very stunning blue my favorite color

skating ensemble and it's like one of her more kind of iconic skates

that is kind of my memory of Michelle Kwan just being this absolutely

artistic talented fantastic skater. She's about six to seven years older than we are just always so impressed with her and her presence and I remember there also being a lot about kind of there was the Brittany Spears element and there was

the Michelle Kwan element and it was like you wanted to be cool like Brittany but

talented like Michelle.

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